How to horizontally center an item in MUI Grid item?

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How do I center elements inside a MUI Grid item? Here is a snippet from my React application:

<Grid container>
  <Grid item xs={4}>
    // Unrelated stuff here
  </Grid>
  <Grid item xs={4}>
    // How do I centre these items?
    <IconButton className={classes.menuButton} color="inherit">
      <EditIcon/>
    </IconButton>
    <IconButton className={classes.menuButton} color="inherit">
      <CheckBoxIcon/>
    </IconButton>
  </Grid>
  <Grid item xs={4}>
    // Unrelated stuff here
  </Grid>
</Grid>

I've tried applying alignContent, justify, alignItems (to the parent <Grid item>) with no success.

I thought this would be quite simple, but I've failed to find any information on centering items inside of grid items.

4 Answers

Two seconds later... I solved this through some simple CSS:

<Grid item xs={4} style={{textAlign: "center"}}>
</Grid>

If there is another approach that is somehow more "correct", please feel free to post another answer.

 <Grid container  className = {classes.root} align = "center" justify = "center" alignItems = "center"  >
            <CssBaseline/>
            <Grid item xs = {false} sm = {4} md = {6}>

            </Grid>
            <Grid item xs = {12} sm = {4} md = {6}>

            </Grid>
        </Grid>`enter code here`

This is the correct way:

<Grid container item xs={4} justify="center">

if container property is set to true the component will have the flex container behavior.

Grid API

In MUI v5, according the the migration guide, The justify prop of Grid is renamed to justifyContent to align with the CSS property name:

<Grid container justifyContent="center" alignItems="center">
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